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Tuesday, February 06, 2018

This just in from Christian Svenningsen:

[While I was researching about Queen Margrethe II
meeting Walt Disney on her California trip to Disneyland, I couldn't find
anything in the history books at the local library. My mind was set up finding
other documentations of this story than some comic book of our Danish queen
from her birth 'til her coronation day on January 1972, which is where I first
learned about it. The librarian at the info desk asked me if I had found anything
useful, I explained him my research, and he looked it up on the database. He
found documentation of King Frederik and his princesses attending the Rebild
Festival in 1961 where Walt Disney was the American speaker that significant year.
Not exactly what I was looking for, but the librarian shared some anecdotes of
his father attending the festival and meeting Walt Disney, which was something
better. He told me his father was eager to meet Walt Disney, and Walt even made
a paper hat for him. He located a photo of Rebild Festival 1961 where Walt was
visible at the front seats next to the Royal Family. He jokingly couldn't find
his father among the attendants on the hilltop in the photo from The Danish
Emigration Archives. I asked for a copy of this Photo, and he generously
printed it out for me.]